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On Wed, 12 Oct 2005 01:47:02 GMT, Moderate Mammal
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>http://www.theeagle.com/stories/101105/am_20051011011.php
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>200 protest professor's lecture
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>Cultural issues divide America, author says
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>By CRAIG KAPITAN
>Eagle Staff Writer
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>Roughly 200 people stood in front of the Bush Presidential Conference
>Center on Monday evening, hoisting pickets and chanting in a mixture
>of English and Spanish for Harvard professor Samuel Huntington to go
>home.  
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>Despite protesters outside, 600 people filled the Bush Presidential
>Conference Center to hear Samuel Huntington discuss his controversial
>views that Hispanics have not assimilated into American culture.  
>Despite the chilly reception outside, the professor was greeted inside
>the auditorium with polite applause and a capacity crowd of 600 as he
>warned of a possible future America split into two dominant cultures,
>caused in large part by the current flood of Mexican immigrants.
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>"We've seen a decline in stability in many aspects of American life,"
>he said in a soft voice as he delivered the speech for Texas A&M
>University's Distinguished Lecture Series. "Americans have become very
>seriously divided over what are called the culture issues."
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>Huntington, who has been the subject of controversy since penning Who
>Are We? The Challenges to America's National Identity last year, said
>Monday that America was settled by people who were white, British and
>Protestant.
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>Those people set the tone for America's dominant race, ethnicity,
>culture and ideology, he told the crowd. Eventually, Germans, Irish
>and Scandinavians, then later Southern and Eastern Europeans were able
>to assimilate into this American culture, he said.
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>But the current wave of immigration, which has been going on since
>1965 and has been dominated by Mexican immigrants, has been different,
>Huntington contended. Because there have been so many such immigrants
>- legal and illegal - and they are so near the country they were born
>in, they have been able to resist assimilation and instead create
>pockets of the country where their culture dominates, he argued.
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>"To the Mexicans, the Southwest is their turf, after all," he said,
>reminding the audience that at one point the land he was standing on
>Monday belonged to Mexico. "They feel they have a particular right to
>be there."
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>The splitting of America from one strong national identity into two
>already is starting to show the signs of a developing backlash, he
>said
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>In fact, California's rise in its Hispanic population is similar to
>the change of power from the Serbs to the Muslims in Bosnia in the
>1990s, which eventually led to extermination camps, he argued. While
>there's probably almost no chance that would happen in California,
>there's also little chance there won't be any backlash at all, he
>said.
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>During the hour-long speech Huntington also described a growing
>backlash to America's reputation around the world as an empire.
>However, all questions at the end of the lecture were in regard to his
>views on immigration. Many pointedly challenged his notions.
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>Outside the building in the minutes before the speech, Father Raymond
>Chavez of Santa Teresa Catholic Church in Bryan stood among dozens of
>members of his flock as he wore a T-shirt stating "Mexican!"
>underneath his black jacket. He was joined by various other groups
>from the A&M campus and surrounding communities, including Conroe.
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>The Mexico native said it wasn't difficult to rally his parishioners -
>many of whom are immigrants themselves - to attend the protest.
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>"We don't agree with him, of course," he said. "We have to defend our
>Mexican rights, our human rights."
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>Nearby, professor Armando Alonzo, a founding member of the Mexican
>American Latino Faculty Association and a researcher of Southwest
>history, took a similar stance. His organization could not support
>such defamatory views, he said.
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>Hispanics have been coming to America since 1848 and have constantly
>assimilated, he explained. The current process might end up being
>slower than in the past, but it is occurring, he said.
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>"I think if he was to look at the newer research, it would show that
>Mexican immigrants are in the process of making those adjustments," he
>said. "These immigrants make valuable contributions in their own
>ways."
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>Alonzo said he found Huntington's paid appearance - near the end of
>Hispanic Heritage Month - insulting not only to the area's Hispanic
>population but to all students at A&M. It seems inconsistent, he said,
>given President Robert Gates' emphasis on making "diversity,
>globalization and internationalization a major pillar of his program."
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>During a short introduction of Huntington, Executive Vice President
>and Provost David Prior emphasized that Distinguished Lecture Series
>speakers do not necessarily reflect the views of the university or its
>administrators.
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>According to professor Edward Harris, who serves as chairman of the
>committee that decided to invite Huntington to the school, the group
>primarily looks at a candidate's scholarship and academic credentials.
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>Huntington has been teaching at Harvard on and off since 1950 and has
>authored several books. The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of
>World Order, which was published in 1996, has been translated into 37
>languages.
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>He has served as chairman of Harvard's department of government,
>associate director for its Center for International Affairs and
>chairman of the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. He
>also served as coordinator of security planning at the White House
>during the Carter administration.
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>"In this case, we had quite an outstanding person with outstanding
>credentials," Harris said Monday morning. "Unfortunately, we did have
>the controversy that was sort of in the background that surfaced as we
>came closer to the meeting date."
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>After the speech, he announced that administrators Prior and Gates
>recently had arranged a speech by UCLA professor Edward Telles, author
>of Persistent Ethnicity: Mexican Americans, Generations and Race.
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>That speech will not be part of the Distinguished Lecture Series. Its
>date and time have not yet been announced.
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>Forums to discuss news items of illegal immigration:
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>Indexes breaking news of illegal immigration:
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>Other important links: 
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>http://www.newswithviews.com/Wooldridge/frostyA.htm
>http://www.rescuewithoutborders.org/index.html
>http://www.americanpatrol.com/LINKS/LINKS.html
>http://www.vdare.com/links.htm
>http://fairus.org/
>http://numbersusa.com/index
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>"Cosmic upheaval is not so moving as a little child pondering the death
>of a sparrow in the corner of a barn." -Anouk Aimee, French Actor  
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>"Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny", Aeschylus (525BC-456BC),
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Who needs any of these latino bastards? Don't talk economics. During
WW2 we managed to harvest the crops and create a vast war machine with
500K men overseas!

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